Description
Senior Quality Assurance Engineer- Galway, Ireland
My client, a large financial investment company, is now looking to hire a Senior Quality Assurance Engineer to join the ever growing team in their Galway office.
This is an excellent opportunity for an experienced Senior Quality Assurance Engineer on a daily rate contract basis.
The Job:
- Actively participate in Agile team activities: daily scrum, iteration planning, sizing and prioritization reviews.
- Review requirements/design documentation and implement comprehensive and traceable test plans covering this material.
- Actively engage in the defect life cycle: creation, reproduction, retesting, and metrics management.
- Participate in test automation activities, utilizing automated integration testing technologies.
- Proactively communicate with/influence Scrum master, fellow QA team members, developers and business analysts to gain consensus on project issues and to resolve issues pertaining to test creation or execution.
- Work seamlessly with development team to develop valid test approaches and scenarios.
The ideal candidate:
- Degree in Computer Science, Mathematics or Finance from an accredited college/university and at least five years demonstrated work experience of functional Quality Assurance testing or an equivalent combination of related training and experience.
- Knowledge of automation tools (preferably Cucumber, Fitnesse) is desired. At a minimum this person should be familiar with test automation concepts, and be able to demonstrate prior work experience developing test automation scripts.
- Experience with test management utilizing HP's Quality Center.
- Prior experience in quality assurance teams within the Financial Services and Asset Management industries desired.
- Informatica/ETL framework testing experience desired.
Skills and Knowledge
- Basic Oracle SQL skills, including the following: Verifying row counts; comparing values in rows, columns; creating queries containing sub queries ; joining multiple tables ; updating data to force test situations ; inserting rows into the database ; ability to understand data models.
- Basic UNIX skills, including the following: navigating through the UNIX file system ; verifying file timestamps ; creating temporary directories; copying files ; viewing file contents ; verifying line counts.
- Working knowledge of Java programming desired for automated test creation.
- Knowledge of Autosys (other job management/scheduling tool).
This is an excellent opportunity to join an established company as it expands its Irish operations. This is a contract role and comes with an excellent daily rate.
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